Can Trump 2.0 pull it off?

I have reported this post. You are ignorant about autism and must be destroyed.

He is a happy-go-lucky dork. I back him 100%. All these people stepping down “on principle” just fear that everything is now being brought to light.

¡Fiat lux!

Obviously some moron fucked up. That goes without saying.

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There are not enough employees. It’s going to take time.

Oopps. Fascism then!

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So far so good…

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Perhaps these [minus the minors] are the (deceased) people that resurrected themselves for the 2020 US elections, to go vote…

"A day in the Life of Sue Republican.

Sue gets up at 6 a.m. and fills her coffee pot with water to prepare her morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.

With her first swallow of coffee, she takes her daily medication. Her medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of her medications are paid for by her employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Sue gets it too.

She prepares her morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Sue’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

In the shower, Sue reaches for her shampoo. Her bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for her right to know what she was putting on her body

Sue dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air she breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.

She walks to the subway station for her government-subsidized ride to work. It saves her considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Sue begins her work day. She has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Sue’s employer pays these standards because Sue’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union.

If Sue is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, she’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t think she should lose her home because of her temporary misfortune.

It’s noon and Sue needs to make a bank deposit so she can pay some bills. Sue’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Sue’s money

Fake stats.

This is the guy that has deleted “how to collect tax manual”, because the word inclusion in part of the text…
“… when you fill out your tax return, ensure the inclusion of your tax code.”

This is not a joke

Let’s put that observation in context, shall we?

The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including some who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, despite four deadly crashes since inauguration day.

According to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (Pass) union, “several hundred” workers received termination notices on Friday.

Many of the workers were probationary employees, those employed for less than a year and lacking job protections, which makes them low-hanging fruit for the Trump administration’s streamlining efforts.

According to the US Office of Personnel Management, there are about 200,000 probationary employees within the federal government.

The firings at the FAA do not include air traffic controllers, but did appear to include engineers and technicians.

A spokesman for the union said non-probationary technicians had been fired, citing of a figure of less than 300 roles so far. The positions terminated include maintenance mechanics, aeronautical information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistants and management administration personnel.

Former FAA air traffic controller Dylan Sullivan claimed on social media that agency personnel who were terminated “maintain every piece of equipment that keeps flying safe, from the radars to the ILS, to ATC automation”.

Job cuts at the FAA are likely to raise concerns. The agency has struggled to recruit air traffic controllers in recent years. An increase in recruitment during the previous two administrations was hobbled by budget cuts that limited training and certification.

The move also comes less than three weeks since a midair collisionbetween an army helicopter and a civilian jet over Washington DC that killed 67 people. Initial reports suggested there was just one air traffic controller working both civilian and military flights in the notoriously busy airspace at the time of the collision.

Since then, seven people died when a plane crashed near Philadelphia; 10 died when another crashed in Alaska; and one person died when the landing gear on a private plane belonging to the Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil failed as it landed and crashed into another parked aircraft.

On Monday, a Delta aircraft flipped over when arriving at Pearson international airport in Toronto, Canada, with 80 people onboard. Early reports suggested all survived.

The Pass union, which represents more than 11,000 FAA and Department of Defense workers who install, inspect and maintain air traffic control systems, posted on its website: “Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety.”

Makes sense to me.

Obviously some moron fucked up. That goes without saying.

It wasn’t a Nazi salute because only a Nazi can do a Nazi salute. Hitler’s own salute was a rather effeminate flick of the wrist. I suppose everyone who’s made that gesture since must be ‘literally Hitler’. :roll_eyes:

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It’s only a Nazi salute when Musk does it.

How do I know that… because some far-Left Socialists told me so.

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The good news is that there is no need for any concern for the terminated workers. And that’s because by the time Trump finishes his campaign to rid America of the millions of illegal immigrants,…

…all of the fired engineers, technicians, maintenance mechanics, aeronautical information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistants and management administration personnel will be able to find work picking the fruits and vegetables that the immigrants once dealt with.

And I’m sure they’ll be able to find affordable living conditions such as this…

And the even better news is that Trump’s efforts to streamline the federal government will free up some funds that he can then apply to tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent of Americans. :banana_dance:

It’s interesting that people are fed this same lie in every ‘Western’ country–that they are too ‘lazy’ to work therefore mass immigration is needed to do every job you can think of. I’m also pretty sure that most of those professions you listed wouldn’t be done by illegal immigrants. People qualified in specialised, sought after professions can live anywhere. They certainly don’t need to be ‘illegal immigrants’.
It defies logic and common sense that ONLY people in ‘Western countries’ are ‘lazy’. Heck. How the fuck did they function BEFORE mass immigrantion from third world countries? I don’t suppose it would be a lie to keep wages low or anything so scurrilous and racist would it?

Slavery

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Right. Which ended in the US in eighteen sixty something (gee, how did it function after that?). The USA is of course the entire planet. Silly me.

I have followed the news from a distance, and I had to ask myself when so many people in the West became so mean-spirited. When I heard and read some of the comments to Musk’s attempts to slash USAID, I had to think how the global economy, run by the World Bank and the IMF, has caused so much debt in so many countries, and the large corporations virtually own the natural resources in many countries. The global economy is a dollar economy, which means these countries owe America, and policy makers in the past had at least financed programs to off-weigh the dollar dominance. Giving people a chance to support themselves isn’t ‘wasteful’.

There was a time when even the most hard-nosed policymakers recognized that global stability required some level of investment in other nations—not purely out of altruism, but because economic dependency and geopolitical influence are deeply intertwined.

The modern global economy was built in a way that ensured poorer nations would remain dependent on wealthier ones, particularly through debt traps created by the World Bank and IMF. Structural adjustment programs imposed austerity, privatized public services, and made it nearly impossible for many countries to develop sustainable economies. Meanwhile, multinational corporations took control of vital resources, further limiting these nations’ ability to profit from their own land.

USAID, while not perfect, at least functioned as a counterbalance, allowing some investment in self-sufficiency rather than pure exploitation. Calling it “wasteful” ignores how much of the West’s wealth was built on resource extraction and financial control over these very same countries. Without some reinvestment, the imbalance worsens, and resentment grows.

The increasing meanness might come from a mix of economic insecurity at home, political polarization, and a growing lack of historical awareness. People see foreign aid as a handout rather than a necessary element of global stability. But this has to do with the rich telling the less well-off that the poor are taking what they have, whereas the rich are taking the money out of economies. It’s a classic tactic—redirecting anger away from those hoarding wealth and toward those struggling to survive. Instead of questioning why a handful of billionaires and multinational corporations extract vast amounts of wealth from economies worldwide, people are convinced that the problem lies with the poor, immigrants, or foreign aid.

The irony is that the real “takers” are the ultra-wealthy and corporations, who offshore their profits, dodge taxes, and manipulate financial systems to extract wealth from both developed and developing nations. Meanwhile, working-class and middle-class people are left fighting over scraps, believing that their economic struggles are caused by welfare programs or aid to poorer nations.

It’s a manufactured scarcity—a world with more than enough resources, but where access is deliberately restricted to benefit those at the top. The global economy is structured to ensure that wealth flows upward, while austerity measures and debt obligations ensure that poorer countries remain subservient.

I support reducing spending at the federal government level, even if it means broad slashing of positions and agencies. Fuck all that massive statist machinery, we the people can do just fine on our own without daddy nanny state gubment always over our shoulder. America was founded on the idea of minimal government and minimal taxation. Let’s remember and get back to that.

Besides, we already have tons of laws against things like fraud, theft, damage to property, and plenty of courts and judges to enforce those laws if someone abuses you financially or economically or otherwise.

Let the courts resolve these problems, we don’t need a hundred three-letter agencies trying to pre-regulate everything and that are all technically unconstitutional to begin with.

EPA, USDA, DEA, DHS, USAID, DOE, FDA, FCC… on and on, none of which exist in the US Constitution and thus, at the federal level, are unconstitutional powers that legally ought to be reserved to the individual states.

Go here A-Z index of U.S. government departments and agencies | USAGov and see. Even just under ‘A’ there are 37 agencies listed. I am sure MOST of these are not needed.

But why are trumpers Magachuds and rightards so stupid?
That cash is not coming back to you. Spending that money is one way to enrich the entire economy, because most of it is spent in the USA, on housing, foods, cars, . This giros in the economy and creates demand.
Where is that money going? More tax cuts for the rich.

Scientific research fuels medical and technical progress in society.
All of that is supended for eight years…

And NO Trump has not cured cancer.